Last week a nonprofit fundraiser said to me, “World Vision can afford to spend so much money to track each child because World Vision is huge and has a lot of money.”
This is almost exactly backwards.
In reality, World Vision is huge and has a lot of money because they spent the money to track each child and report back to donors on what their gifts accomplished.
Donors love to know what their gifts accomplished. And you don’t need the child sponsorship model to take advantage of that. Simply tell donors stories about individual lives that were changed by your organization, describe how their life is better than it was before, and then give the credit for the change to the donor. Your donors will love it — and they will be far more likely to give additional gifts to your organization.
Pro Tip: when you do this, tell the donors what they did, not what your organization did.
